The Five Continues The Beatification Of Andrew Breitbart

There is no denying that Andrew Breitbart was “a force of nature,” as The Five’s Greg Gutfeld makes clear in today’s eulogy. There’s also no denying that his legacy will be mixed, as Ellen makes clear. However, the Fox "News" sanitization of Breitbart's record continued unabated during The Five. It’s expected that Gutfeld, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino and Kimberly Guilfoyle would lionize Breitbart. However, one would have hoped that Bob Beckel would not have jumped on the “What a great guy is Breitbart Bandwagon.” Except for a brief mention of Shirley Sherrod, Beckel wanted to share how much fun it was to get drunk with Andrew Breitbart. Video below.

My brief contact with Andrew Breitbart should not go unremarked. He blocked me on Twitter for making a joke about his book. Considering some of the things he called Liberals and Progressives—never said in a joking manner—I thought my jest fairly mild. You be the judge: “I plan to read Andrew Breitbart’s book if I can get a review copy or find it in my library’s humour section.” After calling me a sad, little clown, Breitbart blocked me. As far as I was concerned, he was just another Right Wing verbal bomb-thrower who could dish it out, but couldn’t take it.

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Fact. If you really break down the sum total of Breitbart, he was a scared pussy. Lying fucking coward. Cheap shot asshole. Chickenshit hypocrite. Un-American pseudonazi. And how often do you hear me calling someone names here at N.H.? In this case, it’s true. Subjective word insults are valid.

The Fox ticker was insulting that Breitbart “exposed” Acorn and sharrod. I wonder if sharrod’s impending victory in her civil suit weighed heavily on him. He seemed so tame past few months almost toothless and truthless.

I must say the rightwing’s concerns about our words towards Breitbart might mean more to me if they weren’t gathered around the radio or computer cheering on Limburger call a young woman a slut and a whore.